Twenty-Third Report of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 2013
Abstract
The Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee held its annual summer meeting in Gainesville on 17 August 2013. As Old Business, the Committee revisited three (two unresolved and one tabled) reports, and resolved two of them. Only the Tricolored Munia on the Dry Tortugas again remained unsettled over a provenance issue. A total of 83 new reports were evaluated by the committee this year. Of these reports, 67 were accepted (57 of which were records verified by specimens, diagnostic photographs, or sound recordings) 13 not accepted, 1 unresolved, and 2 tabled. The notable rare bird event of the year was a major incursion of Razorbills to Florida waters during the winter. One species (European Turtle-Dove seen in the Florida Keys) was removed from the Florida Bird List, and three species (Costa’s Hummingbird, Fea’s Petrel, Variegated Flycatcher) were added, bringing the net total species on the official list to 516.
